Three categories of vagrants identified


A homeless person seen sleeping at the corridors of shops in Johor Baru city centre. — Filepic

JOHOR BARU: The Johor government is planning to provide a better shelter for the homeless in the city aside from providing them with jobs.

State investment, cooperatives, entrepreneurship development and human resource committee chairman Mohd Izhar Ahmad said the state government had identified close to 1,000 homeless people living on the sidewalks in the city centre.

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